Thursday, December 30, 2010

Photos: What Is It? The Answer!

Earlier this week, I posted a photo and asked people to guess what was the subject of the photo. Here again is the photo:

Canon XSi, 65mm macro lens (5x magnification), f/11, 20 seconds.

The answer is that the photo is the middle of this flower:

The first Anonymous poster said "a plant." While that's technically true, it is very vague. "Fort," however, was the first person to come up with the correct, specific answer -- the inner part of a flower. So, he wins the 20 Wolfish Points. :)

The macro lens I was using is the MP-E65. While most macro lenses top out at 1:1 magnification, this lens goes up to 5:1. The down side of that is that at the more extreme magnifications, it eats up light. Add to that the fact that I was using an f/11 aperture (to get greater depth of field). And lastly, the lighting in my dining room (where the picture was taken) is not the greatest. All that meant that to get a proper exposure, I needed 20 seconds.